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November 18, 2013
Former Kate Spade Art Director Develops An Adorbs Book App For Kids
My Monster, by Julianna Goodman, bridges the divide between slick digital storytelling and homemade visuals.
It's rare to see and "touch" things on the iPad screen that evoke the texture, color, and unpolished feel of real life. Fortunately, a new children's book app corrects that shortcoming, bridging the divide between slick digital storytelling and handmade visuals.
Google And Microsoft Agree To Block Child Abuse Images
The two firms have been working together to identify and block images of abuse.
Following a campaign by the British government, Google's and Microsoft's search engines will block images that show children being abused. Google, which has created a new technology to identify pedophilia videos, recently modified its search algorithm to block over 100,000 phrases related to the abuse of children and has plans to roll out the filter in 150 languages. Warnings will appear on the screens of those who search for any one of 13,000 additional search terms.
Why Can't We Walk And Wear Google Glass At The Same Time?
New research explains why such a seemingly simple task is so hard to do.
The era of distracted walking is certainly upon us. Dividing attention between cell phone and sidewalk leaves an estimated 1,500 people a year in the hospital with an embarrassing story to tell. Controlled experiments have found that pedestrians using a phone recall less about their surroundings than other walkers do--with some people so zoned out that they fail to spot a unicycling clown.
The Eye-Popping Images On Colossal Will Make Art Lovers Of Us All
Christopher Jobson's knack for finding the most stunning, share-worthy pictures on the Internet make his site Colossal required browsing for anyone remotely interested in the visual arts.
Between celebrity Twitter feuds, televised nip slips, and troll-baiting stories about breast feeding, there's enough asinine junk on the Internet to get lost in, forever. But what about beautiful, high-quality images of colorful X-rays of flowers, photorealistic portraits drawn with ballpoint pens, or intricate images of a toothpick sculpture of San Francisco? Art is presumably a tough sell online. But on Christopher Jobson's site, Colossal, the visually arresting works easily go viral.
Get Busy
He's the creative force behind two recent pop hits, a philanthropist, fashion designer, tech entrepreneur, and more. How Pharrell Williams does it all.
Pharrell Williams is on a Gravity high. "Whew! Whew!" he says. "Listen to me, it is crazy." The 40-year-old musician, producer, and mini mogul is seated on a rolling chair in the tranquil recording studio at the top of Miami's Setai Hotel; he's small and delicate, like an Egyptian cat, with ropes of delicate gold necklaces and bracelets encircling his neck and wrists. The windows behind him look out on the Atlantic Ocean, and, sitting with his back to the brilliant sun, his silhouette flickers as if a mirage. Naturally, Williams has a home theater, but he couldn't wait and saw Gravity soon after it opened, in 3-D. "I was so happy with the pixelation," he says. We talk about the scene where George Clooney drifts off into space. "I woulda ruined that moment," he says, picturing himself in Clooney's place. "I woulda cried like a baby." I wonder if the idea of a black void, of being completely alone, scares him. "I don't fear any-thing; I know what to avoid." Williams laughs. "I like looking at space, but I don't need to go there myself."
Take The Quiz: What Kind of Productive Person Are You?
Take the quiz and find out what kind of productive person you are (warning: results might be surprising), then tell your followers to see if they agree. #worksmarter
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November 15, 2013
10 Most Popular Of The Week: Why You Owe Your To-Do List To Ben Franklin, The 600-Foot City, And Much More
Our readers voted with their clicks!
1. "A 600-Foot-Tall City On Wheels, For When It's Time To Get Away From It All"
Co.Exist
Hate your commute? Madrid-based architecture student Manuel Dominguez thinks that the city of the future is destined to be on wheels--600 feet above the ground.
LoveRoom: The Social Network For Sleeping With Strangers
LoveRoom invites users to seek out a room from another user--for free. The catch: you spend the night together.
The website LoveRoom officially launched its beta version today and as of this post's timestamp, has so far a grand total of 41 members. The site is advertising itself as "a platform where single people from all around the world can rent their living space to others they find attractive"--for free. They also claim that LoveRoom is the new way to find your soulmate. In this case, it seems "soulmate" is a euphemism for "come on over and spend the night with me--but only if you're good-looking."
A Scientific Journal For Kids, Edited By Kids
Made up of editors as young as 8 years old, Frontiers for the Young Minds is a science journal created by a UC Berkeley professor to teach kids peer review.
Science journals can be a bit... well, dense. To help bring more young people into the world of science and scientific research, a new science journal has been created, and it's by kids, for kids.
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